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VI Censo de Población y V de Vivienda, 2001 - IPUMS Subset

Ecuador, 2001
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ECU_2001_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, IPUMS
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Relationship to head of household (EC2001A_RELATE)

Data file: ECU2001_PHC-P-H.dat

Overview

Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 193
End: 193
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
1. What are the names and last names of each of the persons that spent the night from the 24th to the 25th of November in this household? Begin with the head of household and continue with the rest of the members of the family (do not forget newborns and the elderly).</p>

<p><svar a="all" v="EC01A401">Mr. Census taker: Write the names and last names of each person in the following order:<br /><div class="i1">1. Head of household (male or female)<br />2. Spouse or partner<br />3. Son or daughter (unmarried children, married children, from eldest to youngest)<br />4. Son-in-law or daughter-in-law<br />5. Grandson or granddaughter<br />6. Parents or parents-in-law<br />7. Other relatives<br />8. Other non-relatives<br />9. Domestic servants<br />10. Member of the collective household</div><br /></svar>
Categories
Value Category
0 Head of household
1 Spouse/partner
2 Child
3 Son/daughter-in-law
4 Grandson/daughter
5 Parents/parents-in-law
6 Other relatives
7 Non-relatives
8 Domestic employee
9 Member of a collective household
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.
Interviewer instructions
<svar a="all" v="EC01A401"><span class="em">Question 1.- What family or other relationship do you have with the male or female head of household?</span><br /><br />[There is a picture of question 1 from this section of the enumeration form.]<br /><br />If the person being interviewed is the male or female head of household, use the first questionnaire, intended only for the male or female head of household, and mark box (0).<br /><br />If it is a private dwelling, beginning with the second questionnaire, read word for word each one of the response alternatives and mark with an x the appropriate box: the alternatives go from box 1 (spouse or partner in a consensual union) to box 8 (domestic employee) depending on the kinship relationship that may exist with the male or female head of household.<br /><br /><span class="pg">[p. 37]</span><br /><br />Mark the following under <span class="em">other relatives</span>: brothers, cousins, nieces and nephews, aunts and uncles, grandparents, brothers- and sisters-in-law, stepchildren; in other words, those who have some degree of family relationship or that the male or female head of household considers as such.<br /><br />Mark under <span class="em">other non-relatives</span> those who don't have any kinship relationship to the male or female head of household, such as for example: friends, godparents, godchildren, etc.<br /><br /><span class="em">If the dwelling is collective</span>, begin with page 5 and mark box 9 (member of a collective household). Remember that in these dwellings there is no male or female head of household, and therefore there in no kinship relationship.<br /><br />Keep in mind that this information is in chapter V. Identification of the people in the household; you have to transcribe the previously recorded data from columns 1 and 2 (number of the person and first and last names).<br /></svar>

Description

Definition
This variable indicates the person's relationship to the head of the household
Universe
Ecuador 2001: All persons

concept

Concept
var_concept.title Vocabulary
Demographic Variables -- PERSON IPUMS
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